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A new Sun and Moon video was revealed at E3 this morning, and then promptly uploaded to the official Pokemon channel on Youtube: New Pokemon revealed include: -Pikipek (1', 2.6 lbs), a Normal/Flying-type woodpecker, who gets Skill Link and and Keen Eye as its abilities. -Yungoose (1'4", 13.2 lbs), a Normal-type, who gets the new ability Stakeout as...

Official Pokemon outlets have shared another new video this week. This video starts with more information on our mascot legendaries. First up is the Psychic/Steel-type Solgaleo, with its signature move, Sunsteel Strike. For Moon, we have the Psychic/Ghost-type Lunala, with its signature move, Moongeist Beam. Professor Kukui is your guide to the...

Official Sources revealed a teaser for Pokemon Sun and Moon last week. Seen in the video below are the starters - Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio - as well as the legendaries for the Alola region. We've also been given a release date of November 18th in the US (November 23rd in the UK version of the trailer). Additionally, Pokemon GO is currently accepting...

Final Starter Evolutions, Mega Evolutions for Tyranitar, Aggron, and Gengar Revealed in November 2013 Corocoro [Expand]

Posted by Serpentsounds on 10 Oct 2013 at 12:36pm PDT

We finally have an official reveal of the last stage starter evolutions for Pokemon X and Y! Chesnaught, Japanese name Burigaron, is Chespin's final stage and is a Grass/Fighting type. Delphox, Japanese name Mafokushii (Mofoxy), is Fennekin's final stage and is a Fire/Psychic type. Greninja, Japanese name Gekkouga, is Froakie's final stage and...

Well, many have wanted this for years, and now they'll finally get their wish. Charizard has been revealed to have a second Mega Evolution, just like Mewtwo, with the existing Mega Charizard now known as Mega Charizard Y. As for Mega Charizard X? Well, he's a Fire/Dragon-type and has a new Ability, Tough Claws, which increases the strength of direct...

On Monday, the official Pokemon Facebook hyped a new evolution to be revealed today. And here it is! "The evolved form of Honedge has been revealed! Meet Doublade! This Steel- and Ghost-type Pokémon is capable of carrying out intricate attacks by telepathically coordinating its two blades to deliver twice the slice in battle. Who's planning to...

In an article about Pokemon XY posted on IGN.com this morning, Tyrunt's evolution Tyrantrum has been revealed: The author also interviews Junichi Masuda and Hironobu Yoshida, a designer. On the game giving players running shoes immediately: "Throughout the development of previous Pokemon titles, we've had the philosophy that when you have something...

As usual, the English Pokemon XY site has updated with the information from this month's Corocoro leak. First, the Starter Evolutions: Chespin evolves into Quilladin the Spiny Armor Pokemon, 2'4" and 63.9 pounds. "When Chespin evolves into Quilladin, the hard spikes on its body grow even sturdier. Despite its prickly appearance, Quilladin is considered...

Our one-time web host, IGN.com, has leaked an image of Litleo's evolution, apparently named Pyroar based on IGN's image filename, on their Pokemon XY page. Like Litleo, it appears to be based on a lion, and has a fiery mane. ETA: IGN.com revealed Pyroar in full this morning. It retains Litleo's Normal/Fire-typing, its species is the Royal Pokemon,...

The final Corocoro before the release of Pokemon XY has leaked and contains a lot of new information about the games. First off, we have two new Mega Evolutions: Mega Mewtwo X, who evolves from Mewtwonite X, is a Fighting/Psychic-type second Mega Mewtwo form who has the ability Steadfast and increased Attack from Mewtwo. The previously revealed...

Two important tidbits of information to come from Pokemon Direct today. The first item of interest that was announced was the introduction of a cloud storage service for your Pokemon, Pokemon Bank. There is also Poke Transporter, which allows you to transport Pokemon from Black, White, Black 2 and White 2 to Pokemon X and Y. These two will be available...

Japanese Trailer for New Anime Special, TCG Fairy-type Confirmed[Expand]

Posted by Frost on 17 Aug 2013 at 12:25am PDT

A new trailer was uploaded to the Japanese Pokemon Youtube channel that originated from the Pokemon Game Show event that has a playable XY demo; in the trailer, it previews an upcoming anime special based on the original Red and Green video game: A poster also revealed that Fairy-type cards will be added to the TCG in 2013, with a pink wing symbol....

The seventh Mega Evolution, Kangaskhan, was revealed today in exclusive video at the opening of the World Championships in Vancouver. Upon Mega Evolution, Kangaskhan gets a new ability called Parental Bond that allows it to attack twice in one turn, presumably with the aid of the baby Kangaskhan, who is seen outside of his mother's pouch for the first...

In addition to clearer Corocoro images (see previous update), an ENGLISH trailer was added to Youtube this morning confirming that the "Mega" tag will stick around overseas, the new Gym Leader is Korrina of Shalour City, and the Torchic event is coming October 12 worldwide, with its Mega Stone -- the Blazikenite, as all Mega Stones are seemingly...

September 2013 Corocoro Leaks, Revealing Mega Evolutions and New Pokemon[Expand]

Posted by Frost on 8 Aug 2013 at 9:58am PDT

September's Corocoro has leaked and revealed some major news for the franchise. For starters, three new Pokemon were revealed: Grass-type Meekuru, the pre-evolved form of Gogoat, who weighs 39kg and is 0.9m tall; Dedenne, the Electric/Fairy-type Antennae Pokemon who is clearly Kalos's token Pikachu clone; and Horubi, the Normal-type Digging Pokemon...

A trailer that premiered in Japan during screenings of the Genesect movie a few weeks ago revealed a new tree-based Pokemon named Orotto that we never posted about due to a lack of pictures -- if you remember back to 2010 when Victini was revealed at the end of a movie, Japanese copyright law is extremely strict about things such as taking pictures...

The official site has updated with the Pokemon and characters featured in August's Corocoro! Let's start with the Pokemon: Pancham's evolution is Pangoro, the Daunting Pokemon: "Pangoro is the evolved form of Pancham. It's a cantankerous Pokemon, but it has a strong heart and doesn't forgive those who pick on the weak." Pangoro's Imperial measurements...

August 2013 Corocoro Leaks -- New Pokemon, Xerneas/Yveltal's Types and New Gym Leaders![Expand]

Posted by Frost on 10 Jul 2013 at 11:54pm PDT

The August Corocoro has leaked! The first set of pages reveals information about Xerneas and Yveltal -- namely, their types: Xerneas is a pure Fairy-type while Yveltal is a Dark/Flying-type, as many have speculated. They each have abilities that power up their STAB moves: Fairy-type moves in Xerneas's case and Dark-type moves for Yveltal. Xerneas...

UPDATE JULY 5: The English XY site updated with information about Hitotsuki this morning. Its English name is Honedge, its height is 2'7" and its weight is 4.4 pounds. In addition to learning Swords Dance, the official site writes: "Honedge comes into being when a departed spirit inhabits a sword that once belonged to humans. It can use the blue cloth...

English Pokemon Site Updates with Corocoro Information, New Trailer on Youtube[Expand]

Posted by Frost on 14 Jun 2013 at 5:49am PDT

The official Pokemon site updated with information on the four new Pokemon revealed in Corocoro. Shishiko's English name is Litleo, Furabebe is now Flabébé, Scatterbug is the base form of Vivillon while Spewpa is confirmed to be the middle evolution. Under the Characters and Story tabs, the official site also confirms the English names of...

In addition to the five new Pokemon and information revealed at the E3 festivities yesterday (see the previous post for those), the July 2013 Corocoro leaked last night, revealing four MORE new Pokemon and several new characters from XY! Shishiko, the Young Lion Pokemon, is a Normal/Fire-type who is quick to start fights, in which its red bangs radiate...

E3 Nintendo Direct just took place and revealed a ton of new information, including confirming a worldwide release day of October 12, 2013. Additionally, five new Pokemon have been revealed: Noivern the Sound Wave Dragon/Flying-type Pokemon Noivern is 4' 11", 187.4lbs and learns a move called Boomblast that damages all adjacent Pokemon. Noivern is...

Update: the English Pokemon site was updated today, Tuesday May 14, with English names and background information about these Pokemon, characters and the story/Region. Information has been added to the news post below. Many more screenshots can be seen at the links provided. First, we have Gogoat (Japanese name Gogoto), a Grass-type goat who is featured...

As many of you probably know, a poster for the sixteenth movie leaked about a week ago that had a new Pokemon that looked highly similar to Mewtwo, causing discussion that the new games/movie would feature a new form of Mewtwo. We decided not to post it here because nobody was certain of the legitimacy of the images... but now that the creature featured...

This morning, Pokemon.com officially unveiled Ninfia, whose English name is now Sylveon! While its type is still unknown, we now known Sylveon's name in several different languages, have Imperial heights and weights for it, and some gameplay footage of Sylveon was also posted along with some new screenshots.

Last night, pictures from the March edition of Corocoro were leaked, revealing that Generation VI will introduce a new evolution for Eevee named Ninfia, making it the sixth Pokemon from XY to be revealed. (It's important to note that unlike when the Starters and Legendaries were revealed last month, Ninfia is obviously the Pokemon's Japanese name.)...

This morning on the official English Pokemon site, a small update was made to give us the English names of the (presumably Legendary/mascot) Pokemon that resemble a Y-shaped bird and a deer with X-shaped antlers. The Y-shaped bird Pokemon is now known as Yveltal (pronounce the "Yve" part like "eve") while the deer-like Pokemon is Xerneas (pronounce...